Bottom line: in spaces where the monopoly desktop cannot be leveraged, no
one wants what Microsoft is selling. All of the spaces where Raspberry Pi
is selling like gangbusters -- embedded, hobbyist, maker, mobile, prototyping
-- are places where Windows has never been welcome, isn't wanted, and there's
no reason to introduce it.

After this thing fails, Microsoft will probably try to slap a $15 bogus-patent
royalty on every Pi.

That board has all the elegance of a block of Soviet apartments. It *looks*
like obsolete Microsoft+Intel hardware desperately trying to be hip and cool.

If it's supposed to be a dedicated development board, it would have made
a lot more sense to avoid packing the connectors in so densely like that.
Run 'em all out to the edges so the developers can see what they're doing.

Not that it matters; the intended audience is developers working on a class
of products nobody wants.

The banner on the web site said "This site is stuck in 1995, and we are unaware
of any advancements in technology. Mobile does not exist. The dynamic web
does not exist. We think everyone has a 100 MHz Packard-Bell and a huge CRT
monitor."

(Actually it said "requires Internet Explorer" but the above is a correct
translation.)

So, it seems that Microsoft joined the Khronos group so that it can be part
of the WebGL working group. Have they actually seen the light or are they
just getting involved so they can bastardize the standards?

If their intentions are genuine then they should show a sign of honesty by
axing DirectX and Direct3D, immediately.

The new boss has to make decisions that are beneficial to shareholders. There
is a possibility that Nadella and his leadership team will decide that using
the Windows platform as a bully pulpit may not be the best strategy in the
post-PC era. Or they may decide that Windows still has enough leverage to
push with it.

Either way, we will see soon whether Nadella truly wants to run *with* the
industry instead of screwing up the whole world with the "Windows Uber Alles"
aggression used by Gates and Ballmer.

They have an outright bug in their WinDNS.h header... one that proves that
their fucking TCHAR character type is the stupidest way to deal with characer
encoding, since everyone seems to treat it like a char data type instead of
its own data type.

If you #define UNICODE, and call DnsQuery_UTF8 according to both the documentation
and the header, it will very likely give you garbage, because you'll be working
with a datatype that returns a UTF16 string, but the actual data will be UTF8.
If the thing even links properly, or potentially lead to mysterious stack-related
problems because of bad arguments.

Clearly they stole this idea from Citadel and we should sue them for a

hundred beeeeelion dollars.

I'll write up the Summons and Complaint for you, IG !!
But first you must send them, certified/RRR, a demand letter with intent
to litigate, including your intent to seek punitive and exemplary damages
with the option of opening a Litigation Plaintiff(s) Class subsequent to the
filing of the initial Complaint.

That way you can file the complaint Pro Se and open the class action later
(for which you will need attorney representation).

Geez, the OWA in Exchange 2013 is practically unusable. "Oh, you have 1920x1080
resolution? You must be running on a 10" tablet, so let me set the biggest
font size available and not give you the option to change it!"

And of course when you compose a message there's a little button stuck right
over your text area that substitutes for the Ctrl key on your tablet. Hey
geniuses, I'm not using a tablet. I have a keyboard with *two* Ctrl keys.
Get the damn button out of my way!

So I found myself on a 'doze machine today, and I fired up IE, the program
whose only purpose in life is to download a real web browser. I put "google
chrome" into the search box, and right along with the download link, Bing
put up a big box saying "DID YOU KNOW INTERNET EXPLORER IS FASTER THAN CHROME?
TRY IT NOW!"

Die in a car fire, Microsoft. Instead of IE you should just be including
installers for other browsers. You lost the browser war. Give it up.